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How to Find Anything Online

Hey Everyone! If you're here reading this then you probably already know how wonderful the internet is for communicating with people, for entertainment, for information and education and for making life much easier!

Still, I've posted a bunch of great links, info and videos here, including:

One of the sites you will most often see in the top results of any search is Wikipedia, the free multi-lingual, online encyclopedia. Wiki is the Hawaiian word for quick, so Wikipedia is a quick encyclopedia!

It's a great starting point when you want to learn about something new.

A caveat: Wikipedia is written collaboratively by the people who use it. There are over 14 million user-generated articles. You or I can update any Wikipedia entry, or create a brand new one. People are constantly improving Wikipedia, making thousands of changes per hour which means (A) I wouldn't use it to write my Master's thesis without double-checking the references, but (B) it's actually the most up to date encyclopedia in the world!

YouTube allows people to easily upload and share video clips on www.YouTube.com and across the Internet through websites, mobile devices, blogs, and email.

YouTube is the number one online video source. You can find videos on current news events, funny home-made videos, movie trailers and clips, tv shows, music videos, and my favorite - instructional videos about hobbies and interests. When I have a tech question, I search it on Youtube and someone has ALWAYS made a video about it. Same with learning new songs on the piano.

Here's Steven and Chris' favorite video on Youtube right now:

My favorite music video on Youtube right now (easy to pause and play if you want to learn the moves!):

Learn to play Journey's "Midnight Train (Don't Stop Believin')" on the piano:

Learn to tie a double windsor knot tie:

And don't forget, you can upload your own videos to Youtube! Like these people, who posted cute videes of their "Surprised Kitty" (close to 18 million people have viewed it!):

This video that one man shot of his son called "David After the Dentist" went "viral" with close to 50 million views and many copies and tribute videos:

5. The Steven and Chris show website:

If you're interested in lifestyle topics, then you might as well make this site your homepage! With billions of entries on the web, you really do want to find sites that deliver the best of the best in your fields of interests and turn you onto new products, personalities, topics, tips and other sites.

For all that is fabulous in home decor, style, food and entertaining, health and fitness, finance, relationships and tech - cbc.ca/stevenandchris is your go-to stop to find what you're looking for!

Here are a few other features on our site that help you find things online:

Our Link of the Day blog - we point you to tons of other great sites, features, products and services on the web every day!

Like Wikipedia, we link out to other sites all the time! Through our site you can discover our experts' personal sites, new retailers, where to buy great products, reference material on the people, places and things we discuss and much, much more. Check out our post on Rodney Bowers' Boeuf Bourguignon recipe as an example.

FREE STUFF! Steven and Chris are all about hooking you up with giveaways and contest. And we're talking good stuff!

Speaking of free stuff... wanna win a laptop like the one I use on the show? The HP Pavilion dm3 Notebook PC is ultra slim and light (perfect for carrying around in your bag) and will definitely help you find what you're looking for online!

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